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• To know the world one must construct it. - Cesare Pavese
• Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
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• We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
• We do not remember days, we remember moments. -- Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand
• When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers.
  Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit....
• To be happy living in this world, there are sides of the soul one must entirely paralyze.
• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. -- George Elio
• A creature with two BABOON heads on a scaly REPTILIAN body?
  With TENTACLES for arms? Hunh. Must be some stupid wizard's magical construct....
• No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood.
  The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. -- Martin Luthe...